What a wonderful story, Phillip! Funny that this conversation about dogs should be going on, because my family just got a new puppy this past weekend. Our family is also trying to create a self-sufficient homestead, similar to what you described in Sweden, Sibylle, (which looks wonderful, by the way) and we are getting goats in the spring, so we got an Anatolian Shepherd puppy who we are raising to be the goats' guardian dog. He is a 12 week old brindle male, and he is just the sweetest thing! We will be getting a female Anatolian puppy as well in a few weeks; she wasn't old enough to go home with us yet. We are working on leash and obedience training, and he's practicing his guarding on our chicken flock before the goats get here. We are also working on acclimating him to our other dogs. One of our adult dogs doesn't like other dogs, so it's been slow, but we're making some progress even over just the couple days the puppy has been home with us.